Hands Off the Merchandise:- Have you ever wanted to curl up in a nice warm Tauntaun? Soon you may be able to in the next best thing, an Empire Strikes Back-themed sleeping bag ... complete with intestine lining!

Movie Music:- "La Bambi": Los Lobos Goes Disney on their new album, available October 27. Click hereto pre-order from Amazon.com.- The music video for Adam Lambert’s "Time for Miracles" (a.k.a. "The Love Theme from 2012") will premiere in theaters playing with the Michael Jackson doc This Is It.

Awards Watch:- Seeing double with this year's potential Oscar nominees.- A closer look at this year's Foreign Language Film contenders.

Out of the Celluloid Closet:- AfterEllen.com examines the lesbian subtext of such recent films as Whip It and ... Hannah Montana?

Cinematic Crushes:- Author Frank Anthony Politoremembers 80's heartthrob Jon-Erik Hexum.- John Stamos puts on a happy face for Bye Bye Birdie and gives the word, hummingbird, on his gay fans and gay icon girlfriends.- Gilles Marini's French lover "could be it" for Brothers & Sisters' Sarah Walker.- The Vampire Diaries' Ian Somerhalder has signed to top line the romantic gothic fairy tale Cradlewood.- Chris Messina, the hunky star of Julie and Julia and Vicky Cristina Barcelona, makes a deal with Devil.